Useful or Useless

Am I useful or useless to the cause of Christ? A daily question I must ask myself. How do you define usefulness? Let's use this working definition: being useful means pointing ones abilities and ministry only towards Christ and forgetting your involvement in His work. I'll go a little deeper. If we are laboring for Christ and are constantly seeking approval and acknowledgement for what we are doing in ministry we are making ourselves useless, but if we in turn allow God to use us and not know or completely understand how we are being used we allow God to do what we cannot even see. It's an issue of focus. Oswald Chambers says it this way,"It is the work that God does through us that counts, not what we do for Him." My job and life is in ministry and I need to make all the more sure that it is not about me or my doings but be humbled by what I cannot even see what Christ is doing. Lord help me be useful.

2 Timothy 2:20-21
20In a large house there are articles not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay; some are for noble purposes and some for ignoble. 21If a man cleanses himself from the latter, he will be an instrument for noble purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work.